env.go

// Copyright 2017 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

package base

import "strings"

// EnvForDir returns a copy of the environment
// suitable for running in the given directory.
// The environment is the current process's environment
// but with an updated $PWD, so that an os.Getwd in the
// child will be faster.
func EnvForDir(dir string, base []string) []string {
	// Internally we only use rooted paths, so dir is rooted.
	// Even if dir is not rooted, no harm done.
	return MergeEnvLists([]string{"PWD=" + dir}, base)
}

// MergeEnvLists merges the two environment lists such that
// variables with the same name in "in" replace those in "out".
// This always returns a newly allocated slice.
func MergeEnvLists(in, out []string) []string {
	out = append([]string(nil), out...)
NextVar:
	for _, inkv := range in {
		k := strings.SplitAfterN(inkv, "=", 2)[0]
		for i, outkv := range out {
			if strings.HasPrefix(outkv, k) {
				out[i] = inkv
				continue NextVar
			}
		}
		out = append(out, inkv)
	}
	return out
}